The Birthday Problem – with T-SQL and R
When I was on SQLCruise recently – Buck Woody (b|t) made a interesting statement – that in a room of 23 people,...
2017-05-03 (first published: 2017-04-24)
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Mala Mahadevan
SQL Saturdays – down memory lane
A casual twitter-conversation with Karla Landrum and some other peeps led me down memory lane on older events. Our SQL...
2017-05-01
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Normal approximation to binomial distribution using T-SQL and R
In the previous post I demonstrated the use of binomial formula to calculate probabilities of events occurring in certain situations....
2017-04-17
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The Binomial Formula with T-SQL and R
In a previous post I explained the basics of probability. In this post I will use some of those principles to...
2017-04-17 (first published: 2017-04-10)
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Sampling Distribution and Central Limit Theorem
In this post am going to explain (in highly simplified terms) two very important statistical concepts – the sampling distribution and central...
2017-04-03
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Basics of Probability
In this post am going to introduce into some of the basic principles of probability – and use it in other posts...
2017-03-30 (first published: 2017-03-20)
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Generating Frequency Table
This week’s blog post is rather simple. One of the main characteristics of a data set involving classes, or discrete...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-06)
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TSQL2sday – Daily database WTF
This month’s TSQL Tuesday is organized by Kennie T Pontoppidan(t) – the topic is ‘Daily Database WTF‘ – or a horror story...
2017-03-12
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The Empirical Rule
I am resuming technical blogging after a gap of nearly a month. I will continue to blog my re learning...
2017-03-02 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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SQL Cruise 2017 – Western Carribean – my experience
As some readers may know, I am a regular attendee on SQL Cruise s for 8 years now. SQLCruise is...
2017-02-19
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
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provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Five SQL Server 2022 T-SQL Functions You Should Be Using Right Now
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No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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